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Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster

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The Walking Ghosts of Hiroshima

On an hour or two after the bomb fell, it began to rain in Hiroshima. But while this may seem like a relief, the fires had seeded the clouds above the city with ash. So the rain fell as a blackened mixture of ash and radioactive fallout. Now that the victims were covered in black sludge, the walking ghosts of Hiroshima took on a new level of horror.

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